n the
identification of this impression. Mattaire, vol. i. 449,
does not appear to have ever seen a copy of it: but, what is
rather extraordinary, Count Macarty has a copy of a Cologne
edition in 4to., of the date of 1473. No other edition of it
is known to have been printed till the year 1500; when two
impressions of this date were published at Paris, in 4to.:
the one by Philip for Petit, of which both Clement and
Fabricius (_Bibl. Med. et Inf. Aetat._ vol. i. 842, &c.) were
ignorant; but of which, a copy, according to Panzer, vol.
ii. 336, should seem to be in the public library at
Gottingen; the other, by Badius Ascensius, is somewhat more
commonly known. A century elapsed before this work was
deemed deserving of republication; when the country that had
given birth to, and the university that had directed the
studies of, its illustrious author, put forth an inelegant
reprint of it in 4to. 1599--from which some excerpts will be
found in the ensuing pages--but in the meantime the reader
may consult the title-page account of Herbert, vol. iii. p.
1408. Of none of these latter editions were the sharp eyes
of Clement ever blessed with a sight of a copy! See his
_Bibl. Curcuse_, &c. vol. v. 438.

The 17th century made some atonement for the negligence of
the past, in regard to RICHARD DE BURY. At Frankfort his
_Philobiblion_ was reprinted, with "a Century of
Philological Letters," collected by Goldastus, in 1610,
8vo--and this same work appeared again, at Leipsic, in 1674,
8vo. At length the famous Schmidt put forth an edition, with
some new pieces, "typis et sumtibus Georgii Wolffgangii
Hammii, Acad. Typog. 1703," 4to. Of this latter edition,
neither Maichelius nor the last editor of Morhof take
notice. It may be worth while adding that the subscription
in red ink, which Fabricius (_ibid._) notices as being
subjoined to a vellum MS. of this work, in his own
possession--and which states that it was finished at
Auckland, in the year 1343, in the 58th of its author, and
at the close of the 11th year of his episcopacy--may be
found, in substance, in Hearne's edition of Leland's
_Collectanea_, vol. ii. 385, edit. 1774.]

Among the men who first helped to clear away the rubbish that impeded
the progress of the student, was the learned a